Alas! for this day Which now oppresses me. I stretched out my hand To the mate of Tirini. Followed were my footsteps, And charmed was returning love, At Pirongia there. This the dreaded tribe is undone, Tiki³⁴ and Nukupouri³⁴ And Whanawhana³⁴ And I Rangi-pouri:³⁴ I carried off the woman, I the first aggressor: I went to enter the house of Ruarangi, To stretch out my hand, To touch the _Maori_ skin. The boundary is oven-marked, To prevent its being moved aside, To guard the wife in safety. ³⁴ Names of the Fairy chiefs. He thought the power of his _karakia_ would appear; but it could not conquer the devices of the _Maori tohunga_; for how could it prevail against the cooked food, and the oven-stoves, and the _kokowai_, and the many other devices of the _tohunga_. Hence it was seen that the power of _karakia_ was not possessed by the Fairies. The only power given to them was to smother men. CHAPTER V. THE MAORI CHIEF OF OLDEN TIME. Θεὸς δ’ ὣς τίετο δήμῳ.—_Homer._ The Chiefs who came from Hawaiki to Aotea-roa in the canoe Arawa were the following:—Tia, Maka, Oro, Ngatoroirangi, Maru-punganui, Ika, Whaoa, Hei, and Tama-te-kapua. After their canoe was hauled ashore at Maketu, these chiefs set out to explore the country, in order to take possession of land each for himself and his family. Tia and Maka went to Titiraupenga, at Taupo, and there remained. Oro went to Taupo, and thence to Wanganui. Ngatoroirangi went to Taupo, and died at Ruapehu. Marupunga went to Rotorua, and died there. Ika went to Wanganui, and died there. Whaoa went to Paeroa. Hei went to Whitianga (Mercury Bay). He was buried at O-a-Hei, on the extremity of the promontory. Tama-te-kapua went to Moehau (Cape Colville). Waitaha, son of Hei, and Tapuika, son of Tia, and Tangihia, son of Ngatoro-i-rangi, remained at Maketu. Tuhoro, and his younger brother, Kahumata-momoe, sons of Tama-te-kapua, also remained at Maketu. Their _Pa_ was named Te Koari, and is still a sacred place. Their house was named Whitingakongako. Kahu had a cultivation named Parawai, which his mother gave him. While he was at work one day in his garden, Tuhoro struck him, and they strove together. The elder brother fell, and being beneath his younger brother was held down by him on the ground. Then their children and the whole tribe cried out, “Let your elder brother rise up.” So he let him go; but their quarrel continued with angry words. “Some day I will be the death of you,” said Kahu, “and no one shall save you.” Tuhoro, enraged, again struck Kahu; but he was thrown to the ground a second time by Kahu. Then Tuhoro seized hold of Kahu’s ear, and tore from it a green-stone; the name of this stone was _kaukaumatua_. Tuhoro kept it, and some time afterwards buried it in the ground, at the foot of the post by the window of their father’s house.